Motivational Quotes

Education

The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

- Denis Diderot

Best Quotes about Education

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

Reverend Edward A. Malloy

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Rohn, Jim

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Piaget, Jean

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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Rosenberg, Harold

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Zedong, Mao

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt.

Rees, R. I.

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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Wilde, Oscar

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Ruskin, John

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Twain, Mark

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Denis Diderot

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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

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Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

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Education, we see, is not merely gaining knowledge or skills helpful toward productive work, though certainly that is a part of it. Rather it is a replenishment and an expansion of the natural thirst of the mind and soul. Learning is a gradual process of growth, each step building upon the other. It is a process whereby the learner organizes and integrates not only facts but attitudes and values. The Lord has told us that we must open our minds and our hearts to learn. There is a Chinese proverb: Wisdom is as the moon rises, perceptible not in progress but in result. As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.

Winder, Barbara W.

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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

Robert Hutchins

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The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Weil, Simone

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No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

Rudolph, Lee

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An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

Ann Radcliffe

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Ruskin, John

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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Rogers, Carl

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If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Young, Brigham

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True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.

Schelling, Felix E.

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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates

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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.

Spark, Muriel

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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Sullivan, Anne

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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

Updike, John

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar